The Best Crime Stories Ever Told

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Introduction by Otto Penzler
Detection and mystery. Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr
The ordinary hair-pins / E.C. Bentley
The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins
The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts
Blind gap moor / J. S. Fletcher
The Regent's Park murder / Baroness Orczy
Mystery and horror. Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier
The leech of Folkestone / R. H. Barham
A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm
Cut-throat farm / J. D. Beresford
Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
Secret worship / Algernon Blackwood
No. 17 / Mrs. E. Bland
The open boat / Stephan Crane
Riesenberg / Ford Madox Ford
The prayer / Violet Hunt
The well / W. W.Jacobs
Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. S. Le Fanu
The haunted and the haunters / Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
The great return / Arthur Machen
The story of the Greek slave / Frederick Marryat
Anty Bligh /John Masefield
The bell-tower / Herman Melville
The library window / Mrs. Oliphant
Rose Rose / Barry Pain
Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe
The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sredni vashtar "saki"/ (H. H. Munro)
Called to the rescue / Henry Spicer
The inexperienced ghost / H. G. W. Wells.